George W. Bush: Painting Loss of Power

Nestled between two peaks, the community soon appears to be caught between two, drastically opposed forces: Cooper and Bob, law and order versus barbarism and violence.

As Freud summarized in Civilization and its Discontents: “this battle of the giants: the struggle between Eros and Death, between the instinct of life and the instinct of destruction, is what all life consists of.” Especially once the thin veneer of small-town respectability collapses.

As the new, preppy preppers throw on a new coat of paint on the historically disheveled ideological space that is survivalism, they are also turning some of its most distinctive landmarks on their head. While keeping the canned goods chic of yore.

As we stand on the threshold of becoming an interplanetary species, the debate has centered on the technical feasibility of putting men on Mars to the expense of what kind of presence we wish to be in the cosmos. Is mankind about to become the predatory extraterrestrial race often depicted in horror films? What safeguards are we placing to save the universe from ourselves?

Aliens in History documentaries have become a sub-genre of their own and, fortunately, it doesn’t take long for the utter madness to be discredited. The question is: what particular brand of insanity are we witnessing here and why is it so watchable?

Silicon Valley has given a new lease of life to Transhumanism. In doing so, it has also fundamentally altered what is understood by “Transhumanism” and made it less about man, and more about tech. What exactly differs between today’s transhumanism and that of the 50s, and what implications does this have for the future of our vision of the future?

Is conspiratorialism becoming the dominant world view? Turning the breeding ground for conspiracy theories – and distrust in politics – into the foundation of his political support, Trump’s successes in the Republican Primary are on their way to proving that…

London, mid-July 1837, Charles Darwin starts a new entry in his diary: “I think” followed by the first visual representation of an evolutionary tree. A momentous date for biology. A tragic one for social science.